Wi-Fi/WiMax

BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM).

How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.

This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.

Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011-
The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.

Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.

Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.

The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...

Advanced Malware Exposed
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion to achieve ...

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
[ Source: HP ]
May 2011-
Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.

See what happens when your sales teams are "ON"
[ Source: Motorola ]
June 2009-
Provide a real-time always-on connection between your sales force and your enterprise voice and data systems. Learn the fundamental differences between first and second generation mobility; the impact of true mobility on both transactional and relationship-focused sales representatives; how and why a next-generation SFA mobility solution can reduce costs and improve sales management, IT and general operations—at a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Conquering today's Bring Your Own Device Challenges
[ Source: Aruba Networks ]
March 2012-
A BYOD solution should automate the device onboarding process for employees
and guests, as well as the administration and enforcement of policies, by gathering information about the context of the device, user and connection. BYOD also requires real-time visibility and reporting to quickly measure, enforce, and meet compliance mandates.

Eleven Myths about 802.11 Wi-Fi Networks
[ Source: Global Knowledge ]
August 2006-
It seems that Wi-Fi networks have been misunderstood by much of the IT community since their inception. Even the reasons for this misunderstanding are kind of hard to understand. The result has been that myths about 802.11 (better known as Wi-Fi) networks have grown almost as fast as the technology itself. This paper dispels 11 of the more common myths and provides accurate information that you can use to make your wireless network more secure, scalable, and ...

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) Technology Reaching the Home Market in 2004
[ Source: Information Technology Association of America ]
January 2008-
Innovation At-the-Edges mission is to educate, inform and organize opinion around the value proposition of emerging ""Edge of the network"" applications. WiFi or Wireless Fidelity refers to the technology surrounding the radio transmission of internet protocol data from an internet connection wirelessly to a host computer. Most often the internet connection is a higher speed one such as satellite, DSL or cable rather than slower dial-up connections. This paper from Information Technology Association of ...

Hotspots: Exploring The Opportunities
[ Source: Verax Systems ]
May 2010-
Verax Systems details the possibilities of hotspots in this white paper. The company discusses how the proper management of hotspots can be a source of additional revenue, market research, or a medium to display information such as advertisements.

What's Next In Wireless
[ Source: Interop ]
May 2009-
WiFi has rapidly become a widely adopted technology, with more than half a billion people using it today. Like the rest of the technology world, however, WiFi is not sitting still. Broadcom’s Stephen Palm outlines what is coming down the line in terms of wireless communication and connectivity. According to Palm, WiFi device-to-device connectivity is on its way, allowing users to quickly and easily connect two or more devices to share files, play games ...

Integrating Mobility With UC
[ Source: Microsoft ]
November 2008-
Microsoft features this presentation on Unified Communications. Mobility isn’t just about mobile phones. Mobile users employ a combination of devices and tools. Consistent experience across PC, Web and mobile phone is important. Solutions need to work seamlessly regardless of where the user is--in the office or on the road.

The Business Case for Mobile Security and Management Solutions
[ Source: AT&T ]
March 2014-
Organizations that have not developed an effective mobile empowerment and management strategy risk falling behind their more mobile-enabled competitors. Every organization today should have a viable mobile strategy that maximizes its market advantage while addressing the management and security challenges of a mobile-enabled workforce. An essential component of such a strategy is investing carefully in effective mobile management and security tools, as well as in the deployment model that brings the most benefit with the ...

Five Emerging Trends in Carrier Wifi
[ Source: Alepo ]
December 2013-
With mobile data usage on the upswing, wireless carriers are looking to Wi-Fi hotspots as a viable option for the delivery of high speed internet services on mobile devices. With the introduction of Wi-Fi hotspots to their overall mobile data strategy, carriers can unlock new revenue channels, drive up business value, and optimize network resources and efficiencies.

Getting Wired Performance Out of Your Wireless Network
[ Source: Xirrus ]
May 2013-
Driven by the rapid evolution of mobile devices, the move to cloud-based applications and data, and the continued development of new wireless technologies, Wi-Fi has become the network of choice for connectivity. Most new devices no longer have wired connectivity-for them Wi-Fi is the only option. IT managers now count Wi-Fi as an essential business facility.

The Benefits of Cloud-Managed Wi-Fi for Budgets and Productivity
[ Source: Xirrus ]
May 2013-
Wireless devices have changed the way organizations and their users interact. Mobile smartphones, tablets, laptops, and wireless enabled devices have driven the mindset that wireless networks must be ubiquitous, fast, and constantly available. These are demands that have traditionally put organizations and their users in direct contrast with their IT departments, as constructing and maintaining wireless infrastructures have typically been time-consuming, complex, and costly endeavors.

Ensure Your Wireless Network's Performance - Even Under Heavy Load
[ Source: Xirrus ]
May 2013-
BYOD and cloud-based services are driving monumental changes in IT everywhere - they are no longer in control of what is running on their networks. The ability to provide a level of visibility and control over what is happening in the Wild Wild West of BYOD is mandatory for IT managers to do their jobs. The goal must be to ensure business-critical applications operate properly on the network and that in the least, there is ...

Wi-Fi Capacity: Dealing with Density
[ Source: Xirrus ]
May 2013-
Supporting dozens of clients is easy, supporting hundreds or thousands, not so much. The difference between good enough wireless and great wireless is defined by- unhappy visitors, frustrated exhibitors, lost ability to monetize services and maybe the worst - dissatisfaction of services broadcasted through social media. In other words: because convention centers are such visible venues, running a basic (non-optimized) Wi-Fi network is bad for business.

Demystifying 802.11ac
[ Source: Xirrus ]
May 2013-
802.11ac is a new very high throughput Wi-Fi standard (final approval in 2014). It delivers data rates in excess of 1Gbps in its first phase of products with future iterations planned to take performance to nearly 7Gbps. 802.11ac maintains backward compatibility with existing 802.11 equipment to simplify network migration to the new technology.

Management and Wireless in the Data Center
[ Source: Raritan ]
March 2013-
There are numerous advantages to using Wi-Fi for data center infrastructure management (DCIM) instead of hardwired Ethernet connections. This White Paper examines how wireless systems can support the reliability, performance and security requirements of mission-critical systems.